Mara Zampariolo's photos are peopled by freaks, fur-clad acrobats, grease-painted clowns, tattooed pregnant women and other zany creatures. Through an aesthetic both Rock 'n' Roll and Glam, she highlights the fragility and authentic animal nature of all these characters, like a highly colorful and uncompromising portrait gallery which could be her own family's. Her videos thrust these images into a dreamlike, off-the-wall universe.

« My pictures are imprints of my childhood, my teen years, and I owe a lot to my grandmother who had never cut her hair nor her bottle-green claws… She loved mixing prints (with cocktails) well before Kenzo; Colombian emerald rings with PVC necklaces; and daisy-motif dresses with white fox furs... » Mara Zampariolo